Then I began to know what it meant, and now think it the most beautiful poem I ever read." "You are fond of poetry, then ?" "I don't read much; but I think there is more in some poetry than in all the prose in the world." "That is a good deal to say." "A good deal too much, when I think that I haven't read, I suppose, twenty books in my life--that is, books worth calling books: I don't mean novels and things of that kind.

Yet I can not believe twenty years of good reading would make me change my mind about _In Memoriam_ .-- You don't like poetry ?" "I can't say I do--much.

I like Pope and Crabbe--and--let me see--well, I used to like Thomson.

I like the men that give you things just as they are.

I do not like the poets that mix themselves up with what they see, and then rave about Nature.